This is a very pro-Palestine space. We are anti-apartheid. Full stop.
There comes a point when neutrality becomes complicity — and silence becomes violence. This is that point.
The ongoing genocide and humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is not simply a matter of geopolitics or party lines. It is a matter of basic human dignity, justice, and truth. Supporting Palestine is not a political stance. It is a moral, ethical, and humanitarian one.
At TheRebelle.org, a space created to uplift marginalized voices and advocate for collective liberation, we say this without hesitation: We are pro-Palestine, anti-apartheid, and anti-colonial. This post is long overdue, but it comes at a time when our sisters, brothers and children in Gaza are enduring unspeakable horror, and their voices must be amplified.
Beyond Politics: Why Palestine Is a Global Justice Issue
Supporting Palestinian liberation means aligning with the universal struggle against colonialism, systemic racism, and militarized oppression. It’s about defending human rights, not choosing political sides.
Palestinians are living under one of the most violent, long-standing occupations in modern history. This is not “complex” or “two-sided” — it’s a one-sided reality of ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and genocide, backed by overwhelming documentation from international human rights groups like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the United Nations, and countless independent observers.
The occupation is illegal under international law, maintained through military force, racial segregation, systemic displacement, and deliberate dehumanization. And now, that machinery of oppression is escalating in ways that will deepen an already catastrophic crisis.
The Coming Siege of Gaza City
Israel is openly preparing for the next stage of its genocidal campaign: a full-scale ground invasion of Gaza City. Behind the sanitized language of “neutralizing Hamas” and “establishing alternative governance” lies the reality. It is a plan to crush what remains of Palestinian life in the north. Prime Minister Netanyahu’s approved blueprint is not about security. It is about domination. It is about emptying Gaza City, forcing tens of thousands from their homes, and cementing permanent displacement.
The military buildup (tanks, artillery, and troops massing along the border) evidenced through satellite imagery, is not preparation for peace. It is preparation for a siege. Entire neighborhoods will be swallowed by destruction. Families will be herded into displacement camps, stripped of their homes, their communities, and their histories. The siege will deepen the famine, obliterate what’s left of Gaza’s healthcare, and ensure mass civilian death long before a single shot is fired inside the city.
The UN Secretary-General warns of “dangerous escalation,” but this is not escalation. This is continuation. It is the same colonial playbook: starve, bomb, displace, repeat. To invade Gaza City now, in the midst of famine and rubble, is to make survival itself a crime.
This is not war. This is the machinery of erasure tightening its grip. And the world has no excuse left for silence.
Starvation as a Weapon of War
The 2025 famine in Gaza is man-made. It is not a natural disaster or a humanitarian oversight. It is the result of deliberate Israeli policies aimed at breaking Palestinian resistance by targeting the most vulnerable: women, children, and the sick.
Pregnant and breastfeeding women are starving. Infants are dying from diarrhea and infections caused by unclean water, while hospitals operate without anesthesia, power, or medicine. Clinics are bombed. Aid is blocked. Maternity wards are destroyed. Cesarean sections are done without anesthesia. Babies die in incubators that lost electricity.
The Numbers Are Terrifying
- 67% of the tens of thousands killed in Gaza are women and children.
- One in three pregnancies in Gaza is now high-risk due to starvation, trauma, and lack of care.
- Tens of thousands of pregnant and breastfeeding women suffer from acute malnutrition.
- Only a handful of hospitals remain capable of basic maternal care — with no anesthesia, no incubators, no fuel, and no medicine.
- Emergency C-sections are performed without painkillers. Babies die within hours of birth.
- In many areas, bread has not been available for days, sometimes weeks.
This is not collateral damage. This is reproductive and genocidal violence.
One woman, Shaima Suhail Abu Jazar, was nine months pregnant when a bombing killed her husband and two children. Her fetus died inside her womb days later when she was denied a timely emergency cesarean.
Another, Mary Sheikh al-Eid, just wanted to feed her children. Her husband had already been killed earlier in the war, and the family had survived on lentil soup for weeks. When the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an Israeli backed fund, announced a “women-only” food aid distribution day in Rafah, Mary thought it would be safer to go. But when she arrived, Israeli Occupation Forces began firing pepper spray at the crowd of women and throwing stun grenades to drive them back. In the chaos, Mary was shot in the head. Her sister Khawla later received a call from a stranger who had picked up Mary’s phone. He told her that the phone’s owner had been killed. Mary died trying to feed her children.
In her modest tent on the beach west of Gaza City, Badriya Barawi, a mother displaced from Beit Lahia, weeps as she tried to feed her family.
“Have mercy on us,” she pleaded. “We are fed up and exhausted, mentally and physically. We can’t bear it any longer. How long will this life go on?”
Badriya suffers from high blood pressure and diabetes but said the hunger is more unbearable than the pain. Her children cry constantly from the heat and starvation.
“We haven’t had bread for three days,” she said. “This morning, I fed the children hummus — but is that enough for their stomachs?”
She says she collapses daily from lack of food.
These stories are not isolated. They are systemic.
This is famine as policy. Starvation as collective punishment. A calculated erasure of Palestinian life.
Silencing the Witnesses: The Murder of Journalists
In August 2025, Israel committed one of its most brazen acts of censorship-by-massacre: an airstrike on a tent of journalists in Gaza City, just steps from al-Shifa Hospital. Five Al Jazeera journalists were murdered in cold blood — among them, the irreplaceable Anas al-Sharif, whose reporting had been a lifeline to the outside world. Also killed were Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, and Moamen Aliwa — men whose only “crime” was documenting the truth Israel wants buried beneath rubble. Five lives erased in an instant.
This was not “crossfire.” This was not a tragic mistake. The Israeli military admitted it deliberately targeted al-Sharif, then smeared him as a Hamas operative, which happens to be the same tired script used to excuse the execution of press workers. Al Jazeera, global press watchdogs, and every journalist who still believes in truth have called this what it is: a premeditated strike to blind the world.
Anas al-Sharif had been reporting tirelessly, warning of the devastation on social media hours before his death. Killing him was not just an attack on a man. It was an attack on the record, on history, on our right to know. When you murder the witnesses, you can rewrite the crime scene.
Israel is not just bombing Gaza’s homes, hospitals, and food supply. It is bombing the eyes and voices that can prove it. This is how genocide hides in plain sight.
What Israel Is Doing: The Facts
- Sexual, gender-based, and reproductive violence has been documented in Israeli detention centers and throughout occupied territories.
- Hospitals, maternity clinics, and reproductive health centers have been systematically targeted and destroyed.
- Deliberate starvation is being used as a weapon of war through Israel’s blockade and destruction of food systems.
- Water, fuel, and humanitarian aid are being obstructed, often violently, while civilians are attacked trying to access aid.
- Journalists targeted and killed to silence documentation of war crimes.
- The United Nations, Amnesty International, and international experts have named this violence as genocidal.
This is not conjecture. This is documented.
Solidarity Is Not Optional: How You Can Help
This is not a moment to look away. If you believe in feminism, in racial justice, in human rights: you must stand with Palestine.
Here’s how you can take action:
1. Speak Up Publicly
Break the silence. Use your platform: social media, workspaces, community groups, to amplify Palestinian voices, especially those of women and children.
2. Donate Strategically
Support Palestinian-led or trusted humanitarian organizations that work directly on the ground:
- Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF)
- Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP)
- UNRWA Emergency Appeal
- We Are Not Numbers (for youth storytelling)
3. Pressure Your Government
Demand your representatives support a ceasefire, end arms sales to Israel, and uphold international law. Silence from leadership is complicity in genocide.
4. Boycott, Divest, Sanction (BDS)
Support the BDS movement, a nonviolent campaign modeled after the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, to hold Israel accountable for its crimes.
5. Stay Informed and Educate Others
Do not rely on sanitized mainstream coverage. Follow independent Palestinian journalists, human rights researchers, and diaspora voices. Truth is a form of resistance.
We Are a Pro-Palestine Space
TheRebelle.org is proud to stand in full, unapologetic solidarity with the Palestinian people. We reject Israeli apartheid. We reject genocide. And we refuse to depoliticize a genocide to spare anyone’s comfort.
If your feminism isn’t anti-colonial, anti-racist, and pro-resistance, it is incomplete.
Palestinian liberation is not a trending topic. It is a 75+ year resistance movement — one that deserves more than temporary outrage. It demands sustained, radical solidarity, especially from those who claim to stand with the marginalized.
We say it clearly: From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Q: Whose land was it originally before Israel was created?
A: It was — and is — Palestinian land. For centuries, Palestine was home to Palestinians: Muslim, Christian, and Jewish communities who lived, farmed, built, and worshipped there. By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Palestinians made up the overwhelming majority of the population. In 1917, the British issued the Balfour Declaration, a colonial document promising a “Jewish homeland” in Palestine without the consent of the indigenous people already living there. This set the stage for Zionist settlement and, eventually, the 1948 Nakba, when over 750,000 Palestinians were violently expelled to create the state of Israel.
Israel was not built on “empty land.” It was built on stolen land, on top of destroyed Palestinian villages, through forced displacement and massacres. The descendants of those expelled still live in refugee camps today — denied their right to return by the very state that occupies their homes.
Q: What was the Nakba and why is it important?
A: The Nakba (“catastrophe” in Arabic) refers to the forced displacement of over 750,000 Palestinians during the creation of Israel in 1948. Thousands of villages were destroyed, and Palestinians were made refugees in their own land. Understanding the Nakba is essential to recognizing the historical roots of the Israeli occupation and the ongoing struggle for Palestinian rights, including the right of return.
Q: What is the latest death toll in Gaza?
A: As of mid-August 2025, the latest reported death toll in Gaza has reached approximately 62,004 people, the majority being women and children, since the start of Israeli military aggression in October 2023. Over 156,230 individuals have been injured, highlighting the severity of the ongoing humanitarian crisis.
Since Israel resumed military operations after breaking the ceasefire on March 18, 2025, at least 10,460 civilians have been killed. In just the 24 hours leading up to August 18, 27 Palestinians were killed and 281 injured while attempting to access humanitarian aid. In total, around 1,965 Palestinians have died and 14,700 injured while seeking aid.
Hospitals continue to record fatalities from famine and malnutrition, with 263 deaths, including 112 children, directly attributed to these causes. Many victims remain trapped under rubble, meaning the actual death toll may be even higher.
Q: Is the Israel-Palestine conflict a religious war?
A: No. This is not “Muslims versus Jews.” This is a settler-colonial project in which a modern state, backed by Western imperial powers, violently displaced an indigenous people. Palestinians include Muslims, Christians, and Jews, and all have suffered under occupation. The framing of “ancient religious conflict” is a deliberate distraction from the reality: apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and military occupation.
Q: Why is supporting Palestine more urgent than ever?
A: Gaza faces a humanitarian catastrophe: famine, bombings, and imminent invasion threaten tens of thousands of civilians. Hospitals are destroyed, medical supplies blocked, and journalists silenced. Supporting Palestine today is a moral and humanitarian imperative — not a political stance. Silence enables genocide, while solidarity can help resist it.
Q: What about Hamas — does supporting Palestine mean supporting them?
A: No. Supporting Palestine does not mean endorsing Hamas. Hamas is often used as a pretext for collective punishment. International law makes clear that civilians cannot be targeted for political or military actions of any group. Palestinians are resisting decades of occupation, blockade, and apartheid — and defending human rights does not equate to supporting any specific political faction.
Q: Is Israel acting in self-defense?
A: No. Occupation is not self-defense. Israel cannot claim security when it is actively displacing Palestinians, destroying homes, and committing mass violence. Palestinians are the indigenous population resisting colonial occupation, apartheid, and genocide. International law recognizes their right to resist oppression, while Israel’s actions constitute aggression.